Pure Storage introduced updates to its AIRI//S line of AI-ready infrastructure, which it co-developed with Nvidia.
The 2 distributors launched AIRI in 2018, claiming it was the primary AI-oriented reference structure that simplified the method of constructing an AI infrastructure by connecting compute with storage. AIRI is actually a mixture of Pure’s scale-out FlashBlade//S and Nvidia’s DGX ultra-dense GPU field. Pure supplied the storage, and Nvidia supplied the compute.
This newest transfer, unveiled on the Pure//Speed up techfest22 convention in Los Angeles, is sort of an development, nevertheless.
The brand new launch of AIRI//S is powered by Nvidia DGX A100 programs, that includes end-to-end networking supplied by Nvidia’s Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum networking. A DGX A100 system comes with eight Ampere-generation A100 GPUs and as much as ten ConnectX-6 community adapters from Mellanox.
Pure StorageHelp for Nvidia’s Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage is deliberate in future updates. GPUDirect permits SSD storage to speak straight with the reminiscence on the GPU fairly than having to undergo the CPU and principal reminiscence, thus lessening the burden on the CPU.
“Conventional approaches to AI infrastructure usually lead to silos of servers and storage which might be both over-spent on capability or starve AI workloads. With a deal with simplicity and scalability, AIRI//S allows international enterprises to realize higher time to insights and take advantage of out of their knowledge with AI,” mentioned Amy Fowler, vice chairman, technique and options, FlashBlade at Pure Storage, in a press release.
FlashBlade//S will get an replace
The AIRI information isn’t the one information out of Pure//Speed up techfest22. The FlashBlade//S product household of file and object storage arrays has been up to date with a brand new modular structure constructed on co-designed {hardware} and software program.
The brand new platform presents greater than double the density, efficiency and energy effectivity of earlier variations due to its modular structure, which decouples compute, storage, and networking components. As a result of the FlashBlade//S disaggregates the weather, prospects can scale compute and capability individually as wanted. Each could be upgraded independently and non-disruptively, so you may add extra compute to at least one array if wanted and extra capability to a different.
FlashBlade//S is offered individually and as a part of AIRI//S.
Consumption-based service updates
Lastly, Pure has streamlined its Evergreen subscription service choices. It launched Evergreen in 2015 as a software program subscription contract that features {hardware} and software program upgrades. It set the stage for the Pure-as-a-Service consumption mannequin launched in 2018.
There at the moment are three Evergreen choices: Evergreen//Endlessly (previously Evergreen Gold), the standard mannequin the place the shopper owns the equipment and has a subscription to software program and {hardware} in-place updates at common intervals; Evergreen//One (previously Pure-as-a-Service), the consumption-based service mannequin for storage; and Evergreen//Flex, the place Pure owns the entire batch of arrays in an on-premises managed companies mannequin.
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